Vidal Sassoon, the hairdresser, has recounted his early days as a foot-soldier for an underground anti-fascist group dedicated to wiping out Sir Oswald Mosley's far-Right movement after the Second World War.

Sassoon was a teenage member of the 43 Group, an organisation formed in 1946 by Jewish ex-servicemen who returned from the frontline only to discover that Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists and an admirer of Adolf Hitler, was spreading his message of hatred on the streets of London.

The 43 Group was dedicated to breaking up meetings of these "Mosleyites", through violent means if necessary, and a 17-year-old Sassoon was an enthusiastic street-fighter.

Sassoon said of his fellow 43 Group members: "I was 17, these were all ex-servicemen at least five or six years older than me, and many of them won medals. I was a private."

Armed with knives and razor blades, the group fought pitched battles with Mosley supporters - many confrontations taking place in Ridley Road, Hackney, east London, which had a large Jewish community.

Does anyone find the utter idiocy of "anti-facist" groups such as this amusing? Excluding this Merry Band of Jews, the Modus Operandi for most of these "peaceful persons against facism" is as follows:
1. Disrupt "any" and "all" events that could be seen as "facist" by violent means, attacking any of the supposed "facists" (i.e. American Renaissance conferences, British National Party Meetings, or hell - even the "Old Ladies Book Appreciation Society" ).
2. Depending on the "result" of your "non-violent resistance of racist-facist-extremist pigs" campaign,

Was Sir Oswald possessed of a bad haircut? Someone with a sense of humor and the filmographic means ought to portray Vidal Sassoon in a parody film, fighting those "eeevil" Mosleyites with scissors and a blow-dryer.

Was Sir Oswald possessed of a bad haircut? Someone with a sense of humor and the filmographic means ought to portray Vidal Sassoon in a parody film, fighting those "eeevil" Mosleyites with scissors and a blow-dryer.

Vidal Sassoon, the hairdresser, has recounted his early days as a foot-soldier for an underground anti-fascist group dedicated to wiping out Sir Oswald Mosley's far-Right movement after the Second World War.

Sassoon was a teenage member of the 43 Group, an organisation formed in 1946 by Jewish ex-servicemen who returned from the frontline only to discover that Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists and an admirer of Adolf Hitler, was spreading his message of hatred on the streets of London.

The 43 Group was dedicated to breaking up meetings of these "Mosleyites", through violent means if necessary, and a 17-year-old Sassoon was an enthusiastic street-fighter.

Sassoon said of his fellow 43 Group members: "I was 17, these were all ex-servicemen at least five or six years older than me, and many of them won medals. I was a private."

Armed with knives and razor blades, the group fought pitched battles with Mosley supporters - many confrontations taking place in Ridley Road, Hackney, east London, which had a large Jewish community.

If we so much as look at a black cat the wrong way we are "evil fascists" if reds ended up attacking one of our number and dying in the process they would get a F*****g statue and a memorial day. They should give these stories more airing in the tabloids hold them up to the light which comprises the disillusioned masses and see what they think.